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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index d9789eadb..8e7505bd4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ NTFS Overview To mount an NTFS volume, use the filesystem type 'ntfs'. The driver currently works only in read-only mode, with no fault-tolerance supported. If you enable the experimental write support, make sure -you can recover from a complete loss of data. For ftdisk support, -limited success was reported with volume sets on top of the md driver, -although mirror and stripe sets should work as well - if the md -driver can be talked into using the same layout as Windows NT. +you can recover from a complete loss of data and also always run +chkdsk from within Microsoft Windows NT after performing a write to +a NTFS partition from Linux to detect any problems as early as +possible. For ftdisk support, limited success was reported with +volume sets on top of the md driver, although mirror and stripe +sets should work as well - if the md driver can be talked into +using the same layout as Windows NT. The ntfs driver supports the following mount options: iocharset=name Character set to use when returning file names. |